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The Sleeping Green:
no man’s land 100 years later
October 30 – December 23, 2015
Helen Christou Gallery | LINC | Level 9
Artist: Dianne Bos
Text and historical material: Harry Vandervlist
Reception: Thursday, November 5, 4 – 6 pm, Main Gallery (W600).
Artist and writer will be in attendance.
Bos and Vandervlist also speak on November 3, 3 – 4:30 pm, location TBA
Curated by Josephine Mills
Calgary-based artist Dianne Bos references a famous WWI poem for the title of this exhibition which consists of extraordinary photographs taken in ‘no-man’s land’ between the trenches on the Western Front. Travelling through France and Belgium in 2014, Bos used a variety of vintage and pinhole cameras, including a 100 year old camera, to photograph the land a century after the Great War started. The results of her project are stunning, beautiful, and haunting; the photographs bring the emotions of this crucial historical period to life for contemporary audiences. As well, University of Calgary English Professor Harry Vandervlist contributes a small selection of significant poetry collections from the war years, in original editions. Alongside these historical texts appear his own contemporary writings in the form of montages and meditations which respond to significant phrases from the wartime texts, and which also resonate–in theme and in technique–with Bos’ images.
Contact:
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